Mid-size IT solutions company Blue Star Infotech is planning to set up a delivery centre in the US.

To start off with, the BSE-listed company's endeavour is to have a 100-seater centre where in it will hire domain experts that will service local clients, said Mr Sunil Bhatia, Managing Director of Blue Star Infotech.

“Lot of our customers are now asking us for onsite support in the US itself…and given the employment situation in the US, costs associated with an onsite delivery centre have gone down significantly,” Mr Bhatia told Business Line recently.

However, Mr Bhatia admits that the challenge for the IT industry as a whole will be maintain its traditional margins structure despite the new move to retain some chunks of the work at onsite locations. The company is yet to zero down on where the new delivery setup will come.

Blue Star Infotech, which is owned by air-conditioning and commercial refrigeration company Blue Star, provides product engineering and other enterprise services to companies in sectors such as manufacturing, e-governance, health sciences, travel and hospitality among others. Over the next few months, Mr Bhatia will take a strategic call on which sectors need to be strongly focused on.

The company is keen to increase its share of business from clients in the financial services space simply because that sector accounts for 35 per cent of the global IT spend.

Mr Bhatia recently came on board as the MD of Blue Star Infotech after previous stints with Accenture and IBM in multiple countries. In fact, he has been allotted 3.71 per cent stake in the company by way of a fresh allotment of equity shares.

“After stints in Accenture and IBM, I was keen to venture out on my own. However, with BSIL, I got the perfect opportunity to begin a new entrepreneurial journey with a company that has tremendous potential to grow. By picking up stake my skin is literally in the game,” said Mr Bhatia.

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